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LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
L.R.O.
Ch. 19:01.
Ch. 88:01.
Board may state
case to Court.
[1 of 1981].
(6) No decision, order, direction, declaration, ruling or
other determination of the Board shall be challenged, appealed
against, reviewed, quashed or called in question in any Court on
any account whatever; and no order shall be made or process
entered or proceeding taken by or in any Court, whether by way
of injunction, declaratory judgment, certiorari, mandamus,
prohibition, quo warranto or otherwise to question, review,
prohibit, restrain or otherwise interfere with the Board or any
proceedings before it.
(7) Subject to this subsection, for the purposes of dealing
with any matter brought before it, the Board shall have all such
powers, privileges and immunities as are vested in a
Commissioner of Enquiry appointed under the Commissions of
Enquiry Act to enforce the attendance of witnesses and examine
them on oath, affirmation or otherwise and to call for the
production of documents; and that Act shall, for the purposes of
dealing with such matters and exercising those powers and all
other powers necessary or incidental thereto, apply as if expressly
enacted herein.
(8) A summons signed by the Secretary to the Board
shall have the same force and effect as any formal process
capable of being issued in any action taken in the High Court of
Justice for enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling
the production of documents.
(9) For the purpose of the performance of its functions
under this Act, the Board may co-opt the services of such public
officers in the Ministry of Labour as the Minister of Labour may
from time to time designate.
(10) The provisions of sections 25 and 26(1) to (4) of the
Industrial Relations Act shall mutatis mutandis apply to this Part.
72A. (1) During the hearing of any matter before the Board, the
Board may, in its discretion, on the application of any party to such
matter or on its own motion without such application, state a case
on any point as to the interpretation or application of this Act or
any other written law or rule of law, for the opinion of the Court.
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